Good news! Surveys are out!

If you have any issues please let me know! I spent part of the night in the ER though so I may be slow to respond today 💕

Smoke tests are out! Everyone will get the survey later today or tomorrow! I tried to get a third design done but I think I’m a bit creatively burned out as I hated everything I did lol (as one does) so as a compromise, I promise Twilight Princess Link Wolf will be available for Media Monsters 2 in January! 

Also I decided to try my hand at a banner. I will say this is my FIRST attempt at one. I’m not sure the quality/feel of these banners and as such I have them listed as $12 when they’d be $20 (probably) normally. So if you decide to get one just know you’ll be experimenting with me!

Thank you guys again from the bottom of my heart. I’m constantly blown away and grateful for just… everything.

I’ll be at Fan Expo Boston, Anime Magic, Galaxy Con San Jose, and Matsuricon in August so I may be pretty hard to reach but please swing by if you have the chance! And also know I’ll probably look dead lol!

Also I added a new behind the scenes channel in my discord if you wish to lurk and keep up with things!
https://discord.gg/rPPf4NUejw

I’ll admit I’m pretty bad about posting to socials right now with how busy I am but I do try my best to keep an eye on my discord and randomly jump in with convos ^^

Some good news! I got the Chocobo done today! I also submitted the survey for review. It should be good to launch on Tuesday. But the survey should launch Thursday at the latest! It’ll be open until July 2nd.

I’ll do my best to finish one more design before the survey launches but I make no promises! These will be available as survey stretch goals. If you haven’t seen them before, BackerKit allows new items to be funding during the survey! Pretty much I’d say, 10 people add on this pin it’ll unlock. If they don’t then you won’t be charged for that specific pin.

I look forward to getting these pins started!

Also regarding fulfillment help, unfortunately White squirrel turned out (to my understanding of their quote) to be $5 per order and $0.25 per item. So a 25 pin order would cost $11 for them to fulfill. I’m trying to work out a better system here so there’s no delays but I just wanted to let yall know they’ll still all be fulfilled in house for now! It just may require trying to find an art undergrad to kidnap lol. Craft Quest also offered to drive down to help when the time comes 💕 I could also always employ the Wayward suggested method and find a romantic partner to force to do free labor 😈 (jk, my Ace a** could never). These issues though should be long resolved before these pins are even made, let alone time to fulfill. And while I may chronically run on vibes, when it comes to timelines/operation structures I like to have everything planned and running smoothly. Being a one man operation is brutal sometimes lol.

Hey everyone!!

First things first, I wanted to tease one of the survey unlock pins for yall 💕

Second, I will do my best to get the survey out next week but it may have to be delayed by a few days. This is because I got extremely sick coming back from Akai (swollen shut ear, lymph nodes the size and hardness of a marble, fever, etc etc etc all the fun stuff) and I want to make sure I can deliver the best survey pins I can!! Especially since some of the asks are going to take a bit more mental power (Like the Chocobo because god, birds are so hard for me to draw lol!)

Next, I wanted to poll yall and see how yall feel about me using a third party fulfillment service for this campaign. I was looking into White Squirrel, they’re an artist run fulfillment service. https://www.whitesquirrel.com/about

I know a LOT of other crowdfunding pin and plushie folk use them. 💕

It’ll mean you’ll get the items a lot sooner and I’ll have more time to work on more art, animations, one off comics, and maybe… eventually… set up a vtuber model… I do still have the other 2 artists and my sister in my employ but all the above have their own jobs and obligations that come first. And considering right now I have about 650 open orders, another 92 for helluva portrait soon, and another 400 for this campaign + about 10-20 shop orders a week, White Squirrel could be a huge relief. However, this said, I also know how much I love receiving personalized messages from the artist. I don’t believe either option is wrong. And your vote is anonymous ❤️ regardless I will continue to chat with yall here and as always yall will always be an important part to my process, whether it’s deciding pins or operational decisions! You guys made me who I am today and I will be hard pressed to forget that. What matters to me most is that you all have a safe place here and have fun and get fun shiny things.

Thank you guys!! 
I can’t wait to not be sick and get to working on the other new pins!
- Winterra